hlaða

From Old Norse hlaða, from Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̥aːða/

  Rhymes: -aːða

hlaða (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative hlóð, third-person plural past indicative hlóðu, supine hlaðið)

1. (transitive, with dative) to pile, to stack
2. (transitive, with accusative) to load, to lade (a gun, a car, a ship)
3. (transitive, with accusative) to charge an electronic device

   Ertu búinn að hlaða símann?

   Did you charge the phone?

   Að hlaða rafgeymi.

   To charge a battery.

4. (transitive, with accusative) to build with stones or bricks

   Ég er að hlaða vegg.

   I am building a wall.

5. (impersonal, of snow) to fall

   Það hleður niður snjó.

   It's snowing heavily.

• hlaði

hlaða f (genitive singular hlöðu, nominative plural hlöður)

1. barn

• hlað

From Proto-Germanic *hlaþaną (“to load”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to put, lay out”).

hlaða (singular past indicative hlóð, plural past indicative hlóðu, past participle hlaðit)

1. (transitive, with accusative) to load, to lade
   • hlóðu skipit með hveiti

     they loaded the ship with wheat

2. (transitive, with dative) to pile, to stack
   • kistur hlaðnar af gulli

     chests loaded with gold

3. (transitive, with accusative) to build something by putting one thing on top of another
4. (transitive, with dative) to fell, to lay prostrate
   • gátu þeir hlaðit honum um síðir ok bundu hann

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

5. (transitive, with dative) to slay
   • bera vápn á Finnana ok fá hlaðit þeim

     bear arms against the Finns and slay them

6. (intransitive, reflexive) to throng, to crowd.
   • vér viljum eigi, at fjǫlmenni hlaðist at, er vér erum afklæddir

     we don't want anyone thronging to see us naked

hlaða f (genitive hlǫðu)

1. a storehouse, barn; a place in where something is laid, put, or stacked.

• hlaði

hlaða

1. accusative singular indefinite of hlaði
2. dative singular indefinite of hlaði
3. genitive singular indefinite of hlaði
4. accusative plural indefinite of hlaði
5. genitive plural indefinite of hlaði

• hlaða in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• hlaða in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
• J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on hlaða.